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Category Archives: Geek
RIP Sir Terry Pratchett
One of my favorite authors, Sir Terry Pratchett, died today at age 66 from complications due to Alzheimer’s Disease. His death was announced (beautifully) with appropriate humor on Twitter.
For those of you who haven’t read the 40+ Discworld books, Pratchett’s Death character always speaks in all caps.
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alt.folklore.computers.nipples?
I just found an old Usenet discussion (c. 1993) on alt.folklore.computers in which Eric S. Raymond and I discuss nipples. Bizarre.
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Star Wars: Episode VII Cast Announced
From StarWars.com:
Star Wars VII cast
The Star Wars team is thrilled to announce the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII.
Actors John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow will join the original stars of the saga, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker in the new film.
Director J.J. Abrams says, “We are so excited to finally share the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII. It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again. We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud.”
Star Wars: Episode VII is being directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and Abrams. Kathleen Kennedy, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk are producing, and John Williams returns as the composer. The movie opens worldwide on December 18, 2015.
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Pokédex on Wolfram Alpha
This makes the greatest online reference even better. The full Pokédex is available for your data mining needs.
To access it via Siri on iOS7, simply ask “Search Wolfram for Snorelax” (or whatever Pokémon you care about).
My (now teenage) sons would have loved this if only it had been released 5 years ago.
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Atom Stars in World’s Smallest Movie
IBM scientists Wednesday unveiled what they called "the world’s smallest movie," which tracks the movement of atoms magnified 100 million times.
The film, "A Boy and His Atom," depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom and follows him on a journey of dancing and bouncing that helps explain the science behind data storage.
"Capturing, positioning and shaping atoms to create an original motion picture on the atomic-level is a precise science and entirely novel," said Andreas Heinrich, a scientist at IBM Research.
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Happy 20th Birthday WWW (and a personal web story)
In honor of the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web, CERN has restored the first website.
On a personal note, I had developed my first website way back in 1994. The site was known as Interactive Nest Egg and it was the digital version of my company’s (Investment Dealers’ Digest) publication, Nest Egg. At that time, it was one of a handful of financial sites on the web, and I’ll never forget the day it was announced on Yahoo!. Back then Yahoo! was the place to go to find out about new sites, as there were only a few sites going live per day. Good times…
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